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Archbishop Spellman Tours War Fronts With Private Citizen Vicar Role
Archbishop Francis J. Spellman of New York returned from a world tour of battlefronts, traveling 45,585 miles by air. He acted as private American citizen and military vicar for Catholic troops, sharing life with fighting men, meeting statesmen, generals, and wounded soldiers, including a British flying boat search for torpedoed survivors.
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